Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. RD.com, ... a huge upsurge in art and literature in the Black American community in the early 20th century.

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His poem imagines what it would be like to be the first Black kid in space. Eva Anthony, 10 Eva Anthony’s poem, Advice, includes suggestions for adults on how to live their lives.

AN ORDINARY LIFE: Poems, by B.H. Fairchild. (Norton, $26.95.) “This is the world. All there is of it,” Fairchild ends a poem evoking his father’s Kansas machine shop, a frequent touchstone ...